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., i ?-?.--.; a asking now to go forward to the Board of Zoning Appeals to ask -for a setback variance on Brookpark which would put the building in line with the condominiums in the rear where they will add berming and substantial landscaping to buffer the building from the edge of the pavement. They are also asking for a variance to the rear in order to put the parking in the front of the building with none behind it adjacent to the condominiums where they intend to put mounding, landscaping, and fencing to minimize any disturbance to the residents. They will work with the city to assure that this facility will not become a hang out for undesirables. They have had a traffic impact study done and the impact is negligible. Mr. Thomas asked haw the code defined the front or side yard. Building Commissioner Conway advised that, in this case, the front and side setbacks are both 100 feet from any boundary line. Mr. Newberry then explained the location of the site on Brookpark Road and advised that a portion of the site did extend through to Country Club Boulevard just east of the Corporate Center parking. Total area is about 15 acres, but the boundaries have not been firmly set until negotiations are set with Biskind Development Company, the owner. Zoning is Mixed Use "A" which allows residential, office, and commercial development; and a revised preliminary development plan has been presented to Council. The vacant parcel is bounded by the Westbury Apartments on the west, the Corporate Center on the southwest along with Chester's restaurant and the Radisson Inn which fronts on Great Northern Boulevard; the neighbors to the east are the Jefferson Place Condominiums and swim club, Colebrook Condominiums, and Clareshire Condominiwns; the land across Brookpark Road is vacant. The store is a new prototype with 3 doors in the front rather than one, the garden center and T.B.O. are located along the south elevation putting these facilities on this side of the building minimizes traffic on Brookpark Road. There are two parking areas, the main one is to the west of the building to keep it away from the residents, and the other is to the south which will service the garden center, T.B.O. and probably employees. The parking lot is broken up with riumerous landscaped islands. The original development called for a break in the limited access about where their proposed entrance is located, that break has probably been entered in the journal as at unspecified distance along Brookpark Road, somewhere between the east end of the Westbury Apartments and the condominiums, and will be subject to the further definition by the Director. New left turn lanes will be added in the median of Brookpark Road as well as paving over a portion to allow access to the site; a right turn lane will be added on the south side of Brookpark Road; and a right turn only in and out will be added at the eastern end of the site to funnel some of the cars away from the main entrance. The access onto Great Northern will be an easement on an existing drive past Chester's Restaurant. They believe that the number of accesses on the site is necessary for this type building since it will distribute the traffic as much as possible. There are few sidewalks in the area at present, and they will build a sidewalk along their right of way line to Brookpark Road which will be oriented so that it fits in with the landscape mounding; and there will be a sidewalk through the parking lot. The placement of the building facing west was to allow for parking in front of the building and so that the condominitun residents will not have to look at the parking lot and lights, and this will also allow them to build up a mounded buffer with an 8 foot high decorative fence to screen the store from the residential buildings, he maintained that from the ground floor the residents will not know the store is there and since there is no activity in the back it will be quiet. They intend to provide an tmpaved drive for safety vehicles. To conform with the Corporate Center they have changed the building's colors to browns and tan shades with an accent stripe at the top. They have designed the pavement at the truck doclc so it slopes gently in order not to 2